Last week I witnessed two productions on complete opposite ends of the theatrical compendium. One was William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, starring English actor and ...

As the director of Macbeth which is currently enthralling audiences at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre, Mark Babych was conscious ...

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The Michigan Shakespeare Festival is returning for the summer, starting this week. The festival opens on Tuesday with The Tragedy of Macbeth. Artistic director Janice Blixt says last year’s main ...

Apart from The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, a tragedy of errors, is the shortest of Shakespeare’s plays. At only 2,107 lines it is barely half the length of Hamlet, with which it is often compared. The ...

Just in time for Halloween, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison is offering an intense “Macbeth” served up with extra scares. Shakespeare consistently treated places on the outskirts of ...

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. By Maya Phillips “Macbeth” isn’t one of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays,” ...

A new Blu-ray upgrade of the director's 1948 Shakespeare adaptation invites a closer look at the technical and thematic ideas Welles would continue to explore until his death. When asked about the ...

Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...